INWOOD Bands from around the Eastern Panhandle participated in the Region IX Concert Festival at Musselman High School last week during Music in Our Schools
SPRING MILLS If one would have asked Ariana D’Andrea two years ago if she would be playing violin, she would have laughed at the possibility. The 14-year
SHEPHERDSTOWN Shepherdstown Elementary School’s students began their fall semester under new leadership, following the Jefferson County Board of Education
HEDGESVILLE â With students being in and out of school, some learning completely from home, and COVID-19 forcing businesses to open and close doors to the public, the Sora app is connecting the local library system with Berkeley County students in a safe manner, opening the world of books digitally to the younger readers.
The student access point to the Libby app, Sora allows students to access age-appropriate library books through their Schoology account, a fairly new program addition to the district.
âThe Sora app is something that the school system has to put on the devices,â said Dana Phelps, Hedgesville Public Library manager. âWe, at the library, have no control over the Sora app. Only the school system can put it on a device. Itâs very safe. Their technology people have complete control over it. The only thing we bring to the table is the books that the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library has purchased for all the patrons in the Eastern Panhan